Independent security experts said that about 2 million account passwords Facebook, Google, Twitter and Yahoo from Internet users around the whole world has been stolen. Researchers with Trustwave SpiderLabs team, said they found indications that, while investigating a server in the Netherlands. As a result, cyber criminals controlling a large network of computers known as "botnets Pony".
More than 90,000 websites and other internet service providers found on the server. The data covers over 326,000 Facebook Akkub, 60,000 Google account, Yahoo account more than 59,000 and nearly 22,000 Twitter account.
The victim, according to SpiderLabs, came from the United States, Germany, Singapore and Thailand. Representatives of Facebook and Twitter, says the company has reset the passwords of affected users attacks. A Google spokesman declined to comment. Yahoo representatives could not be reached.
SpiderLabs said it had contacted the authorities in the Netherlands and ask them to take down the server Pony Botnet. An analysis posted on the blog SpiderLabs shows, that the most common password used by internet service users is "123456". There are nearly 16,000 accounts.
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